Publications

For an up-to-date list of publications, visit my Google Scholar profile.

This page lists type of publications in reverse chronological order. You can see my publications organised in broad thematic categories here.

If there is a publication you’re interested in but don’t have access to, email me at gisela.reyescruz@nottingham.ac.uk and I’ll be more than happy to share it with you.

Journal Articles

• Liz Dowthwaite, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Ana Rita Pena, Cecily Pepper, Nils Jäger, Pepita Barnard, Ann-Marie Hughes, Roshan das Nair, David Crepaz-Keay, Sue Cobb, and et al. 2023. Examining the Use of Autonomous Systems for Home Health Support Using a Smart Mirror. Healthcare 11, no. 19: 2608. [ web ]
• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Joel E. Fischer, and Stuart Reeves. 2022. Demonstrating Interaction: The Case of Assistive Technology. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 29, 5, Article 48 (October 2022), 37 pages. [ web | PDF ]
• Cecily Pepper, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Ana Rita Pena, Liz Dowthwaite, Camilla M Babbage, Hanne Wagner, Elena Nichele, Joel E Fischer. 2022. Understanding Trust and Changes in Use After a Year With the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study. J Med Internet Res 2022;24(10):e40558 [ web ]

Conference Proceedings

• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Andriana Boudouraki, Dominic Price, Anna-Maria Piskopani, Pepita Barnard, Harriet Cameron, Horia Maior, Maria Galvez Trigo, Stuart Reeves, Joel Fischer. and Praminda Caleb-Solly. 2025. Please follow me to the next stop: a case study of planning, deploying and researching a robot-guided tour in a museum in the UK. To appear in Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [ web | PDF ]
• Harriet Cameron, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Anna-Maria Piskopani, Pepita Barnard, Andriana Boudouraki, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Simon Castle-Green, Joel Fischer, Richard Hyde, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, and Horia Maior. 2025. Acceptability, Acceptance And Adoption Of Telepresence Robots In Museums: The Museum Professionals’ Perspectives To appear In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [ web | PDF ]
• Liz Dowthwaite, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Yang Lu, Justyna Lisinska, Peter Craigon, Anna-Maria Piskopani, Elnaz Shafipour, Sebastian Stein, and Joel Fischer. 2024. Technology for Environmental Policy: Exploring Perceptions, Values, and Trust in a Citizen Carbon Budget App. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–13. [ web | PDF ]
• Andriana Boudouraki and Gisela Reyes-Cruz. 2024. An Interdependence Frame for (Semi) Autonomous Robots: The Case of Mobile Robotic Telepresence. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1–5. [ web | PDF ]
• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Martinez Avila, Eike Schneiders, and Andriana Boudouraki. 2024. Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 31, 1–7. [ web | PDF ]
• Junrui Hu, Gisela Reyes Cruz, Joel Fischer, and Horia Alexandru Maior. 2024. Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 6, 1–14. [ web | PDF ]
• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Peter Craigon, Anna-Maria Piskopani, Liz Dowthwaite, Yang Lu, Justyna Lisinska, Elnaz Shafipour, Sebastian Stein, and Joel Fischer. 2024. “Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic”? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 267–278. [ web | PDF]
• Maria Jose Galvez Trigo, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Horia A. Maior, Cecily Pepper, Dominic Price, Pauline Leonard, Chira Tochia, Richard Hyde, Nicholas Watson, and Joel E. Fischer. 2023. “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding trust and reassurance towards a UV-C disinfection robot. Presented at: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2023, Busan, South Korea, 28-31 August 2023. [ web | PDF ]
• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Isaac Phypers, Andriana Boudouraki, Dominic Price, Joel Fischer, Stuart Reeves, Maria Galvez Trigo, and Horia Maior. 2023. Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation. In Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 55, 1–6. [ web | PDF ]
• Harriet Cameron, Matthew Story, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, and Maria Jose Galvez Trigo. 2023. Co-creating Museum Robots with People That Are Autistic and/or Have Learning Disabilities. In Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 45, 1–5. [ web ]
• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Joel Fischer, and Stuart Reeves. 2022. Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards. In Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 67, 1–15. [ web | PDF ]
• Gisela Reyes Cruz. 2021. Designing to Support and Extend the Competencies of People with Visual Impairments. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 68, 1–6. [ web | PDF | poster | presentation ]
• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Joel E. Fischer, and Stuart Reeves. 2020. Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13. [ web | PDF | presentation ]
• Velvet Spors, Gisela Reyes Cruz, H. R. Cameron, Martin Flintham, Pat Brundell, and David Murphy. 2020. Plastic Buttons, Complex People: An Ethnomethodology-informed Ethnography of a Video Game Museum. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY ‘20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 594–605. [ web | presentation ]

Workshop Proposals

• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Velvet Spors, Michael Muller, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Shaowen Bardzell, Rua M. Williams, Karin Hansson, and Ivana Feldfeber. 2025. Resisting AI Solutionism: Where Do We Go From Here? In Companion of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. [ web | PDF ]
• Rucha Khot, Minha Lee, Alexandra Bejarano, Lux Miranda, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Joel E. Fischer, and Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. 2024. Robo-Identity: Designing for Identity in the Shared World. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1326–1328. [ web ]
• Eike Schneiders, Andriana Boudouraki, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Martinez Avila, Houda Elmimouni, Jens Emil Grønbæk, Sean Rintel, and Swapna Joshi. 2023. Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots. In 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI ’23 Companion), September 26–29, 2023, Athens, Greece. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. [ web ]

Workshop Contributions

• Velvet Spors and Gisela Reyes-Cruz. 2023. “I hope this email finds you well”: a speculative exploration of how current communication technology fails to support human connection. Accepted at the workshop: Collective Healing to Support Design Futures: Building Community and Exploring Methods (CHI ’23)
• Matthew Story, Harriet Cameron, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, and Maria Jose Galvez Trigo. 2023. “I want it to be happy instead”: co-designing robotic systems for cultural experiences with children that are autistic and/or have Learning Disabilities. Accepted at the workshop: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Co-Creating Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (ICRA’23). May 2023, London, UK.
• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Joel Fischer, and Stuart Reeves. 2020. New Approaches to Investigate Disability in HCI. Accepted at the workshop: Nothing About Us Without Us: Investigating the Role of Critical Disability Studies in HCI (CHI’20). April 2020. [ PDF ]
• Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Joel Fischer, and Stuart Reeves. 2019. An ethnographic study of visual impairments for voice user interface design. Presented at the Workshop: Addressing the Challenges of Situationally-Induced Impairments and Disabilities in Mobile Interaction, CHI’19. May 2019, Glasgow, UK. [ PDF ]

Design Outputs

• Gisela Reyes-Cruz. 2022. Visual Impairments Reflective Design Cards. Nottingham Research Data Management Repository. [ web ]

Thesis

• Aurea Gisela Reyes Cruz. 2023. A competencies framework of visual impairments for enabling shared understanding in design. PhD dissertation, University of Nottingham. [ web | PDF ]
• Aurea Gisela Reyes Cruz. 2016. An ethnographic study of people’s strategies to avoid food waste. MSc dissertation, University of Nottingham. [ web ]